David Marshall

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David Marshall is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, and the Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science. He was a professor at Yale University for 18 years, where he was Chair of the English Department, Director of The Literature Major, Acting Chair of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center, among other appointments. During 1997-1998, Marshall taught at Northwestern University. Marshall is Chair of the University of California President’s Advisory Committee on Research in the Humanities, and a member of the AAU/ACLS Humanities Steering Committee. David Marshall’s research focuses on 18th-century fiction, aesthetics, and moral philosophy. He is the author of essays on Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, Lennox, Mackenzie, Rousseau, Wordsworth, Hume, and Rilke, among other authors, and three books: The Figure of Theater: Shaftesbury, Defoe, Adam Smith and George Eliot; The Surprising Effects of Sympathy: Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley; and the Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815, which recently won the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies' Louis Gottschalk Prize. Marshall was a Guggenheim Fellow and he received Yale’s Morse Fellowship. He served on the Editorial Board of Eighteenth-Century Studies from 1997 to 1999 and as Advisory Editor for Comparative Literature from 1992 to 1995. For the Modern Language Association, he served on the Committee on Honors and Awards and chaired the Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Selection Committee and the Division Executive Committee for Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature.